Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JASAD) is a socialist political party in Bangladesh that was founded in 1972. The party split from the student wing of the Awami League party, and the party maintained a militant wing that waged a leftist guerrilla war against Mujibur Rahman's government. The party sought to create a classless, socialist state along the Chinese model, and it sought to do so through revolution. In 1975, the JASAD party attempted to kill Rahman in a bombing, and it assisted Ziaur Rahman's coup d'etat before Rahman had JASAD leader Abu Taher executed. Rahman's government proceeded to crack down on JASAD, which fragmented during the dictatorship of Hussain Muhammad Ershad in the 1980s. In 2017, the party held 6/350 Jatiyo Sangshad seats.